Originally Posted by
dj506
We'll probably return the car back to the airport and then take a shuttle into the city to stay there for a few days. We want to avoid driving downtown if we can avoid it.
Depending on who you're renting from, drop the car in the city. The freeway back from Geelong will get you most of the way into the city - driving all the way back out to the airport and then taking the shuttle back into town is really unnecessary. Ask your rental car company for a mapbook (just ask for a 'Melways') and figure out ahead of time how to navigate (a) to your hotel so you can drop off the bags and (b) from there to the rental car company's city location. It's not really that bad ... If you indicate which rental car company you're going to use and what hotel you decide to stay in, no doubt somebody can suggest the best way to navigate back from Geelong/GOR.